The Policy Conference on Euro-Asian Cooperation in Combating Transnational Organized Crime by Sea, organized by the Center for the Law of the Sea and Marine Affairs of CASS Institute of International Law and funded by the Germany-based Konrad Adenauer Foundation, was held in Beijing. More than 30 participants from navy, coastguard, police and maritime officials and scholars from a dozen Asian and European countries attended the conference and carried out discussions on such issues as piracy, arms trafficking, drug smuggling and human trafficking by sea, and exchanged views on promoting closer cooperation among Asian and European countries.